The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1


The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.

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